Bad Facts Make Good Law: The Jacobsen Case and Open Source

Авторы

  • Lawrence Rosen

Ключевые слова:

Open source licenses, contracts, enforcement, infringement, consideration

Аннотация

For the first time, a major U.S. appeals court has held that an open source license is enforceable through preliminary injunctions. The court also found that exacting conditions in the form of compliance with open source requirements for disclosure and explanation of changes is entitled to recognition as consideration for a contractual license.

Биография автора

  • Lawrence Rosen
    Founding partner, Rosenlaw & Einschlag.

Опубликован

2009-05-08

Выпуск

Раздел

Articles

Как цитировать

Bad Facts Make Good Law: The Jacobsen Case and Open Source. (2009). Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, 1(1), 27-32. https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/5